Improved



D. R. REED. APPLE GORER' AND 'SLIGER.

Patented July 14, 1868.

No. 80,0l0.

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Letters Patent No. 80,010,.dated Jzily 14, 1568.

IMPROVED APPLEOORBR -AND SLIGEB.

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TO ADI; WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: p Be it known that I, DAVID R. REED, of Tekonsho, in the -county of Calhoun, and State ofMichigun, have invented a netv and useful=Improvement in Machines for Goring and Quortering Apples, orother suitable fruit; nd I-do hereby declare that the following is a full, clen r, and exact description of the construction'and opera.v

tion ofthe same, reference being bad to the annexed drawing-, niak'ing sport of this speeificotijon, in which a view of the-machine is given in perspective. v

' My invention relates-mainly to the mode of connecting the operating-devices, and separating-the cores from the quarters; and the better to enable othersskilled in this particular branch to construet'the seid invention, I will proceed to desc'ribe'it.

It consists simply ofs square tapering box, of convenient capacity, for the reception of the cores substantially'ns exhibited at A. I I

I fasten the top of this box to the smes, and hinge the bottom, B, seeuringit, when shot, with check and staple. The hinged bottom is designed for convenience in emptying the cores from the box when full, but-it is not absolutely indispensable that the bottom should be hinged at all, 'for asimple piece of board withrledges or fitted loosely in with o. rebbet, will onspver all practical uses, or the bottom may be nniled fast like the top,

and an opening made in one side to be covered with .edoor, which may be opened'or removed for emptying .theoores.

The usual core-tube, with side-cutting flanges, isshown at C. I connect this to the top of the box aforesaid;

by an elongation of the tube, which is inserted snugly into-a hole bored in the-centre of the top of the box",

which top should be of just suilicient area as will insure the telling ofi therefrom of the quorters as they are but.

To force the npples down on, the cutters, I use a hand-lever, -D one end of which isjointed toa east-mete! are), E, screwed to ,the box in the relative position, as seen, and in order to preserves moreunit'orrn horizontal bearing upon the apple, I find it useful to joint to the lever e presser, P, which, however, maLy'be dispensed with,-and the apples be forced down by e let-ted surface on the lever.

The operation is us follows: The machine is' placed in a pen or tub designed to'reeeivo the quarters; and the pai ed apples in are successively placed on the cutters C, and cored and quarteredby depressing theliniitL lever D, the quarters falling, as they are cut, through intothe pan, and the cores as they-are out and forced throughthe tube, falling into the box A, \vhich, n'hen full, may be emptied, in the manner hereinbefore described; 'I am awai'e that machines erected on tables, have been used, which core and quarter apples by pressers acting against flanged tubes, and therefore do not 'claitn that as my invention; but I am not aware of ,any in which the operating-devices are fastened to a box which receives the c'ores, and keeps them separated from the cut quni'ters falling into the pan; within which the box is placed, as in my invention, the effect of which is to make the machine more simple, compact, penvenient, and inexpensive for general use.

What I claim osmy invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows: I claim the arrangement and combination of the flenge-coring-tubo C, presser P; hend-lever D, arm E, with the receiving-box A, substantially in the manner and for the nurpose specified.

\ DAVID :R. REED.

Witnesses:

ROBEET Moon, S. D. FBAZIEB. 

